6/28/2011

Last Night's Dinner

Last night was going to be DR's last evening with us for a while.

Where's he going to be?

Well, he's going to be in Canada and in the USA. Without me.

In Canada. Without me.

In the USA. Without me.

There's only a couple of hours until he leaves and I'm still convinced he'll take me with him. (I mean, really.... could he possibly go without his Mum? Er, DR, don't answer that please. Not in that tone anyway, thank you.)

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. Dinner last night. I gave DR the choice for dinner and he chose:

Chicken Parmigiana. I'd assumed he'd go for steak. I had certainly assumed he'd go for red meat of some description, but I was glad he chose this dish. We hadn't had it for a while, so it made it particularly tasty. Go check it out on PW's site. Delicious.

For pudding he chose White Chocolate Cheesecake with Raspberry Coulis. It was a variation on this recipe, which we love:

White Chocolate Cheesecake with Berries

300 g White Chocolate

600 g Cream Cheese

284 ml Double Cream

50 g Castor Sugar

170 g Raspberries

5 tblsp Raspberry Jam

200 g small Strawberries

a few Blueberries (optional)

Line a lightly oiled 900 g loaf tin with cling film.

Melt the chocolate.

Whisk the cheese, cream and sugar together. Stir in the almost cool melted white chocolate until well combined.

Stir 50 g raspberries with 2 tblsp of the jam. Spoon half the cheese mixture into the loaf tin, then spoon the jammy raspberries down the centre. Top with the rest of the cheese mixture. Level the top, then press in the biscuits. Cover and chill for 6 hours or overnight.

Set aside about 6 strawberries. Halve the rest, then warm in a pan with the remaining jam until soft. Whizz in a food processor, then rub through a sieve. Add a drop of water if the sauce is too thick.

To serve, carefully turn the tin onto a plate, lift away and strip off the cling film. Halve the remaining strawberries, then arrange on top of the cake with the remaining raspberries (and blueberries, if using). Pour a little sauce over, and serve the rest separately for drizzling over.

We didn't do this last night. We made a digestive biscuit base in a round tin and poured the cheesecake mix over it. We chilled it, and made a Raspberry Coulis, and served it like normal cheesecake.

Deb: You said, 'but 'digestive bicuits' sounds more like something you take for a stomach ache'... Lol! They are wholemeal biscuits, or sweetmeal?? Not sure. They can be bought in the US, but normally in the British section of the larger stores. *Proper* teabags, and these biscuits are a *must* for any Brits visiting the US!

DR and his friend are now in the sky, somewhere over the Atlantic. They're spending some days in Ontario, then going to a youth camp/conference in MI. After the camp, they'll spend more days in MI before flying home again.Jealous?? Who said anything about being jealous??